I spent the afternoon deer hunting and brought along the 260 that I traded for a couple of months ago. I sent it off to be accurized by 30calsniper and just mounted the scope on it last week. I had it at the range last week and was way impressed with how it shot. I managed a three shot group at just under 4" at 500 yards laying prone shooting off of a bipod which is about all I'm capable of.
Anyway, a group of hogs came out at about 400 yards just after legal shooting light and I was just about to get up anyway so I went ahead and popped one. I picked out the smallest pig in the group (I wanted some meat), put the cross hairs on his shoulder and let it fly. The 140 grain A-Max hit him hard and he went down immediately. The bullet left about a 1" exit hole just behind his off shoulder and he moved around just enough to bet bloody as crud.
This pig was about 50 pounds heavier than I thought he was so the bigger hogs in the bunch must have really had some size to them. I was thinking he was in the 80 - 150 pound range but he was probably closer to 150. Considering that I would bet that two of the hogs in the group (out of about 10) must have been close to or a tad over 300.
This was my first outing with this rifle that I just traded into and while I don't intend to carry it very far I absolutely love it. The rifle is a Remington 700 260 sitting in a McMillan A5 with a Badger DBM, the scope is a NF 3.5-15.
Anyway, a group of hogs came out at about 400 yards just after legal shooting light and I was just about to get up anyway so I went ahead and popped one. I picked out the smallest pig in the group (I wanted some meat), put the cross hairs on his shoulder and let it fly. The 140 grain A-Max hit him hard and he went down immediately. The bullet left about a 1" exit hole just behind his off shoulder and he moved around just enough to bet bloody as crud.
This pig was about 50 pounds heavier than I thought he was so the bigger hogs in the bunch must have really had some size to them. I was thinking he was in the 80 - 150 pound range but he was probably closer to 150. Considering that I would bet that two of the hogs in the group (out of about 10) must have been close to or a tad over 300.
This was my first outing with this rifle that I just traded into and while I don't intend to carry it very far I absolutely love it. The rifle is a Remington 700 260 sitting in a McMillan A5 with a Badger DBM, the scope is a NF 3.5-15.
